Amsterdam, New York
Volkswagen on a Smokestack
An upstate New York garage advertises its services by literally putting the automobile above all else.
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Amsterdam, New York
An upstate New York garage advertises its services by literally putting the automobile above all else.
Troy, New York
The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.
Saratoga Springs, New York
Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.
Los Angeles, California
The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.
Los Angeles, California
Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, California
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
Los Angeles, California
This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.
Los Angeles, California
It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
Gilroy, California
Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.
San Jose, California
It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.
San Jose, California
A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.
San Jose, California
The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.
San Jose, California
The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.
San Jose, California
A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.
San Jose, California
An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.
San Jose, California
The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.
Palo Alto, California
Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.
San Jose, California
A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.
Santa Clara, California
One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.
Sunnyvale, California
A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.
Palo Alto, California
This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.
Palo Alto, California
The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.
Palo Alto, California
Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.